Describe the structure of the Fed's Open Market Committee (FOMC). What is this committee's primary responsibility?
What will be an ideal response?
The FOMC is comprised of the seven members of the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and four Presidents (serving one-year rotating terms) from the remaining eleven district banks. This committee assumes primary responsibility for managing the U.S. money supply.
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When government outlays are less than tax revenues, the government has
A) a budget with a negative debt. B) a budget deficit. C) a budget with a positive balance. D) an illegal budget because outlays must exceed tax revenues. E) a budget surplus.
Refer to Table 9-12. Which country has a comparative advantage in producing belts?
A) Estonia B) Morocco C) both countries D) neither country
In the specific factors model, a 5% increase in the price of food accompanied by a 10% increase in the price of cloth will cause ________ in the welfare of labor, ________ in the welfare of the fixed factor in the production of food, and ________ in
the welfare of the fixed factor in the production of cloth. A) an ambiguous change; a decrease; an increase B) an ambiguous change; an ambiguous change; an ambiguous change C) a decrease; an ambiguous change; an ambiguous change D) an increase; a decrease; an increase E) an ambiguous change; an increase; a decrease
The period during which real output falls during a business cycle is called:
a. peak. b. recession. c. recovery. d. trough.